Jardin Des Plantes ambush

The Jardin Des Plantes ambush occurred in 1941 during World War II. The German Wehrmacht attempted to ambush and kill four French Resistance leaders at the Jardin des Plantes, but the leaders managed to escape.

The Germans had been tipped off by Resistance leader Duval Mingo's fiancee Francine Martin about a planned meeting between Mingo and right-bank resistance leaders Luc Gaudin, Margot Bonnaire, and Sean Devlin at the Jardin des Plantes botanical garden on the left-bank of the Seine. As the resistance leaders met in the open (which Bonnaire was nervous about), they were ambushed by several German soldiers, and they had to flee after engaging in a firefight with the Germans. Devlin succeeded in getting away from the Germans while driving the three other Resistance leaders, and they made their new base in the catacombs of Paris, where Mingo was based.